Solace

• Right Mode After a Restart. When Solace opens, it now switches your Mac to the right mode straight away, without waiting for macOS to find your location. It uses the last location it saw, which stays private on your Mac and is never shared.
• More Reliable Switching. If your Mac isn't ready to change modes just after you log in, Solace keeps trying for up to 30 seconds.

• Ready at Startup. Solace now matches your schedule the moment your Mac starts, so a morning start opens in light mode.
• Your Switch Stays. When you switch modes yourself, Solace keeps your choice until the next sunrise or sunset, even through sleep and restarts.
• Wallpaper in Step. Your wallpaper now checks itself each time your screen wakes, so it always matches the mode you're in.
• Smoother Switching. Switching is more dependable right after your Mac wakes, and any switch notice now clears itself once the switch goes through.

• Weather mode now checks today's forecast the moment your morning switch arrives, so clear days start in light on their own.

• Setting Solace up on a new Mac now opens a colourful welcome that walks you through location, permissions and where Solace lives in your menu bar.
• The menu bar icon now fades smoothly between the sun and moon when you switch.

• Settings now open right inside the panel, laid out in the same cards as the rest of Solace.
• Right-click the menu bar icon and choose Settings to go straight there.
• Weather Decisions now sits under Support, next to the rest of the help.

• The menu bar icon now follows every change of appearance, including ones made by macOS itself or while your Mac is asleep. If you ever noticed the icon showing the other mode, this update resolves that.
• Using several desktops? Solace now brings each desktop's wallpaper into line as you arrive on it.
• Tip: turn on Show on all Spaces in System Settings > Wallpaper and every desktop changes at once.

• Moving to a new Mac, or reinstalling macOS? The new Deactivate This Mac control in Settings frees your activation slot first, so it stays available to you.
• If your key is already in use on three Macs, Solace now takes you straight to your account, where you can release a slot yourself in a few seconds.
• A tidier Settings panel: Privacy and Terms now sit with the other support links, and each section collapses so you see just what you need.

• Screen warmth returns immediately when your Mac wakes, instead of taking a moment to reappear.
• Warmth also stays put when just your display sleeps and wakes.
• Always On now genuinely means always on, including after your Mac wakes during the day.
• Improved reliability of warmth switching on at your scheduled time, and of adjusting the warmth level while it is fading in or out.

• Adjusting your sunrise or sunset time takes effect immediately, including right after an update.
• If you ever changed a switch time and it did not seem to do anything until the next day, this update resolves that.
• Smoother dragging on the schedule timeline, which now settles once when you let go.

• Turn the daily light and dark schedule on or off whenever you like, right from the Schedule section.
• Set your location by hand: type any city and Solace uses it for sunrise, sunset and weather. Ideal if you use a VPN or would rather not share your location.
• A refined way to fine-tune your switch times: tap a sunrise or sunset time to nudge it earlier or later, with a live preview and a quick confirm.
• Improved reliability of weather-based switching after your Mac wakes.

• Wallpapers now have an on and off switch, just like the other features. Turn it off and Solace leaves your desktop alone.
• When you switch it off, your wallpaper returns to how it was before, so you are never left on a wallpaper you did not choose.

• Right-click the Solace icon in the menu bar for a handy new menu: open Solace, reach support, check for updates, or quit.
• Pressing Cmd+Q with the panel open now always quits Solace itself. If you ever pressed it and a different app closed instead, this update resolves that.

• Refined the welcome experience with a more native, better-spaced setup for new installs.
• Refreshed the activation screen for a smoother start.
• Tidied the About panel.

• The About panel now has a dedicated Support section. Report a bug, request a feature, leave a testimonial, review the roadmap, or browse the FAQ, all in one place and each opening the Solace Support Centre.
• Refreshed the About panel layout so everything is cleaner and quicker to find.

• Improved wallpaper switching for wallpapers stored in iCloud or Google Drive. If your wallpaper ever lagged behind a light or dark switch right after startup, this makes it apply reliably as the drive comes online.

• Times across Solace now follow your Mac's 24-hour or 12-hour clock setting automatically, so they match the rest of your system.

• Weather mode now announces both Light Mode and Dark Mode as the day's conditions change, with clearer notification wording.
• Various improvements and refinements throughout.

• New Compatibility Mode brings Evening Warmth to the newest MacBook Pros.
• Solace recognises these machines and offers it in one tap, and you can switch it on anytime from the Warmth settings.

• The warmth slider now previews live on your screen as you drag it, so you can dial in your preferred warmth level by eye at any time of day. Your chosen level still activates automatically on your evening schedule.

• Improved reliability of mode switching by cleaning up scheduled timers properly. Previously, repeated wake events or location updates could leave orphaned timers that fired at unexpected moments, occasionally applying a stale mode.
• Refined the Weather decisions diagnostic panel with a cleaner layout, better visual hierarchy, and a Clear button.

• Added a "Weather decisions" diagnostic panel to the About menu. It shows the last 10 weather mode decisions, including cloud percentage, sensitivity threshold, what triggered each decision, and whether it resulted in dark or light mode.
• Decision logs now use Apple's unified logging system. They're queryable retroactively via Console.app and log show without needing Xcode.

• Fixed Solar mode applying the wrong appearance for users in the Americas. The sunrise/sunset calculator was returning sunset times 24 hours behind the actual sunset, which after v1.0.32 (which honors timer fires on wake) caused Solar mode to force dark appearance whenever the Mac woke from sleep or had a brief display sleep, regardless of the time of day.
• Sunset and sunrise are now calculated correctly across all time zones.

• Evening Warmth now extends down to 1900K (candlelight). Previously the floor was 2700K (incandescent). Drag the slider further left for the warmest light, ideal for late-evening reading or winding down for sleep.
• Existing warmth preferences are preserved exactly. The slider thumb may sit in a different position because the range is wider, but your screen tint is unchanged.

• Fixed Weather mode forcing dark mode after dock/undock or Wi-Fi changes. The mode-correction routine that ran at startup was firing on every routine location update, overriding manual mode changes during the day.

• Fixed Solar mode not switching to light at sunrise when the Mac was asleep through the transition. Solace now correctly applies the right mode on wake, even on the same session it was launched in.

• New Feedback link in the About panel opens the Solace community board, where you can request features, vote on ideas, and see what's being worked on

• Each section in Screen Comfort can now be collapsed independently
• Defaults adapt to your screen size: fully expanded on larger screens, collapsed on smaller ones
• Your layout preference is remembered across sessions

Wallpaper fix

• Fixed wallpaper not updating when macOS appearance switches outside Solace, for example after overnight sleep and morning boot
• More robust appearance detection that correctly handles macOS Auto mode

• Tap the temperature to switch between Fahrenheit and Celsius
• New "Always" option for screen warmth, keeping it on 24/7
• Manual light/dark toggle now persists through sleep when weather mode is active
• Improved location reliability on Mac Studio and macOS Tahoe

• Fixed morning warmth not clearing after overnight sleep
• Fixed weather mode incorrectly switching to dark mode on clear mornings
• Fixed location retry button requiring two clicks

• New "Launch at Login" toggle in the About panel
• Respects changes made in System Settings
• Improved reliability of login item registration

• Solace now tells you exactly why location isn't working, with steps to fix it
• Wi-Fi off? You'll see a clear message explaining Macs need Wi-Fi for location
• Upgraded to modern location API for faster, more reliable positioning
• No more infinite "Fetching location..." spinner

• Fixed Evening Warmth not activating when set to "Sunset" start time
• Adjusting sunset/sunrise offset now immediately updates warmth state
• Improved transition reliability with state consistency checking

• Fixed weather mode not loading on installed copies of Solace
• Added location retry logic for more reliable weather data

• Choose how cloudy is "cloudy enough" for dark mode: Cloudy, Overcast, or Gloomy presets
• Weather stats now show daytime forecast averages instead of current-hour values
• Evening Warmth can now start at sunset instead of a fixed time
• Improved wake-from-sleep reliability for both weather and warmth

• Wallpaper picker now opens reliably without focus issues
• Wallpaper previews display correctly after selection
• Wide or tall wallpapers no longer stretch the preview card
• Popover now closes consistently when clicking outside

• Cloud cover decisions now use the full day's hourly forecast for greater accuracy
• Gloomy day notification lets you know when dark mode activates, with a one-tap "Keep Light" override

• Fixed Evening Warmth turning off after ~10 seconds
• Evening Warmth now applies immediately on app launch and enable
• Warmth setting no longer resets when the app quits or updates

• Fixed "can't be updated from this location" error on first launch
• App now automatically clears macOS quarantine and relaunches cleanly
• Sparkle auto-updates work immediately after install - no manual steps needed

• Fixed weather mode switching dark/light multiple times per day
• Daily cloud decision now properly locks mode for the rest of the day
• Solar scheduler no longer overrides weather-based mode decisions

• Fixed crash when enabling or adjusting Evening Warmth settings
• Rewrote Night Shift controller for safe cross-version compatibility
• Added struct padding to guard against future macOS API changes

• Fixed dark mode auto-activating on every app launch
• Fixed crash when adjusting warmth temperature or start time
• App now respects your current mode on launch - only switches at sunrise/sunset

• Fixed dark mode auto-activating on every app launch
• First-switch prompt now appears correctly for new users

• Fixed app automatically switching to dark mode on first launch
• Fixed crash when enabling Evening Warmth
• Thread-safe Night Shift control

• Fixed evening warmth resetting every 10-15 seconds due to Night Shift interference
• Solace now enforces its gamma tables and suppresses Night Shift while warmth is active

• Fixed WeatherKit entitlements not embedded in release builds - weather mode now works on installed copies
• Improved weather error messages with user-friendly text

• Fixed auto-updates - Sparkle framework now properly embedded
• Check for Updates and automatic update prompts now work correctly

• Auto-update now checks on launch and prompts automatically
• Fixed evening warmth activating on morning wake-from-sleep

• Fixed evening warmth activating on morning wake-from-sleep
• Warmth now correctly stays neutral when waking between 6 AM and evening start time

• Fixed license activation - corrected organization ID
• Fixed activation response parsing

• License activation errors now display inline on the license screen
• See exactly what went wrong: invalid key, network error, activation limit, etc.

• Fixed auto-update feed URL - updates now work correctly
• Includes all v1.0.4 improvements: licensing, Keychain, timezone detection, code cleanup

• Licensing simplified - one-time purchase, no more free trial
• License keys now stored securely in macOS Keychain
• Timezone change detection for solar schedule
• Scheduler retry limit prevents infinite loops
• Solar calculator fix for edge-case coordinates
• Removed ~530 lines of dead code
• Full cleanup on app quit (gamma, timers, observers)

• Sparkle auto-update now starts at app launch
• You'll automatically be notified of future updates

• Added Quit button on expired trial screen
• All app links now point to theodorehq.com
• Updated Privacy, Terms, Support and Website links

• Weather mode simplified - single daily cloud decision, no more mid-day flipping
• Evening Warmth now fades in gradually over ~2 minutes
• Warmth no longer applies retroactively after Mac wakes from sleep
• Increased sunrise proximity buffer for smoother transitions

• Solar scheduling - automatic light/dark mode at sunrise and sunset
• Custom scheduling - set your own switching times
• Weather-aware mode - dark mode on overcast days
• Evening Warmth - gradual blue light reduction (2700K-6500K)
• Wallpaper management with multi-display support
• Global keyboard shortcut
• Launch at login